HITCHCOCK, Gilbert Monell, (son of Phineas Warren Hitchcock),
a Representative and a Senator from Nebraska; born in Omaha, Nebr., September
18, 1859; attended the public schools of Omaha and the gymnasium at Baden-Baden, Germany;
graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1881; admitted to
the bar and commenced practice in Omaha, Nebr., in 1882; continued the practice of law until 1885,
when he established and edited the Omaha Evening World; purchased the Nebraska Morning Herald
in 1889 and consolidated the two into the Morning and Evening World Herald; unsuccessful
Democratic candidate for election in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the
Fifty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1905); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1904
to the Fifty-ninth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses (March 4,
1907-March 3, 1911); did not seek renomination in 1910, having become a candidate for the United
States Senate; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate January 18, 1911; reelected in 1916
and served from March 4, 1911, to March 3, 1923; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 and
for election in 1930; chairman, Committee on the Philippines (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth
Congresses), Committee on Foreign Relations (Sixty-fifth Congress), Committee on Forest
Reservations and Game Protection (Sixty-sixth Congress); resumed newspaper work in Omaha,
Nebr.; retired from active business in 1933 and moved to Washington, D.C., where he died on
February 3, 1934; interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Omaha, Nebr.

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Ph.D. dissertation, University of Colorado, 1940; Wimer, Kurt. Senator Hitchcock and the League
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